{"id":55,"date":"2006-05-09T17:37:46","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T16:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/word-of-the-day-%e5%b4%8e-qi\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T17:37:46","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T16:37:46","slug":"word-of-the-day-%e5%b4%8e-qi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u5d0e (q\u00ed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u5d0e (q\u00ed), noun = the banks of a winding river<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of one of the very specific words in Chinese. I doubt if it&#8217;s used very often, but the fact that you pack so much meaning into a single syllable is quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Pronounced with the first tone and combined with \u5d87 (q\u016b), this character means rugged, uneven or rough, e.g. \u9019\u689d\u5c0f\u5f91\u5d0e\u5d87\u800c\u591a\u6ce5 (zh\u00e8 ti\u00e1o xi\u01ceoj\u012bng q\u012bq\u016b \u00e9r du\u014d n\u00ed) &#8211; This path is rugged and muddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5d0e (q\u00ed), noun = the banks of a winding river This is an example of one of the very specific words in Chinese. I doubt if it&#8217;s used very often, but the fact that you pack so much meaning into a single syllable is quite impressive. Pronounced with the first tone and combined with \u5d87 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}